Life expectancy.

Ask any liberal why we should embark on a UK/Canada style of nationalized health care (go ahead, I’ll wait, I’m sure you won’t have to look too long), and I’ll bet you a thousand dollars they’ll shoot back that the life expectancy in those 2 countries is greater than ours. They probably won’t say anything [...]

Trojan horse.

The trojan horse candidate explaining his trojan horse plan to socialize our health care industry.

Good news, I think.

I feel terribly for these parents, but it doesn’t appear that vaccines were the cause of their heartache. A special federal court ruled yesterday that vaccines do not cause autism and that thousands of families with autistic children are not entitled to compensation, delivering a major blow to an international movement that has tried for [...]

We bleed money.

Don’t raise taxes. Cut spending. Please. You wouldn’t give a blood transfusion to a patient with an open wound spurting blood all over the place, would you? No, you’d sew up the wound first, right? Don’t raise taxes to cover spending then until you sew up wounds like SCHIP: Researchers who actually study the program [...]

The health bet.

I havent seen any polling, but I bet “universal” is a word that appeals to most Americans. We all want people to have access to good things like health insurance and quality medical care. Yet Americans should recognize that when politicians talk about “universal” insurance, theyre really talking about “government” insurance. And, as government takes [...]

Obama omelette recipe—first break a few eggs?

Obama Proposes Eliminating Medicare Advantage, Ousting 9 Million Seniors from Their Health Plans (Cato @ Liberty). For Obama to suggest eliminating Medicare Advantage outright, however, is extraordinary. First, Obama made a campaign promise that he will let Americans keep their current health insurance. Eliminating Medicare Advantage would force 9 million seniors out of their current [...]

Sowell speaks, I listen.

Thomas Sowell : An Emergency Review – Townhall.com. It is one of the painful signs of our times that millions of people are so easily swayed by rhetoric that they show virtually no interest at all in finding out the hard facts. Any number of other countries already have government-controlled medical professions. Yet few Americans [...]

Shots and autism?

New Jersey Law Requiring Flu Vaccinations Goes Into Effect – NYTimes.com. Curious about what everyone thinks of this one. This fall, the New Jersey Coalition for Vaccination Choice held a rally in Trenton that drew hundreds of parents who said they should be the ones to decide if their children need flu shots, not the [...]